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Frédéric Darboux is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to soil erosion, sediment transport, and environmental processes in agricultural and biological sciences.

Their recent publications include works on soil labile carbon variations, soil organic carbon sequestration, soil erosion modeling, and the impact of organisms on soil recovery. Notable recent papers are:

  • Effects of forest floor characteristics on soil labile carbon as varied by topography and vegetation type in the Chinese Loess Plateau, 2020, CATENA
  • Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration under Long-Term Chemical and Manure Fertilization in a Cinnamon Soil, Northern China, 2022, Sustainability
  • Connectivity elements and mitigation measures in policy-relevant soil erosion models: A survey across Europe, 2023, CATENA
  • Can Lumbricus terrestris be released in forest soils degraded by compaction? Preliminary results from laboratory and field experiments, 2021, Applied Soil Ecology
  • A rainfall simulator using porous pipes as drop former, 2021, CATENA

Frédéric Darboux collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Elmar Schmaltz
  • Lisbeth Lolk Johannsen
  • Mika Turunen
  • Timo A. Räsänen
  • Lionel Cottenot

Their work has been published predominantly in the journal CATENA, with multiple publications also appearing in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Sustainability, Applied Soil Ecology, and Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Their research spans several interconnected fields and subfields, comprising agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science as the main fields of study. Subfields of study include soil science, ecology, environmental chemistry, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and civil and structural engineering.

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrology and sediment transport processes
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Soil and unsaturated flow
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology

Best Publications

  • Accuracy of interpolation techniques for the derivation of digital elevation models in relation to landform types and data density

    Vincent Chaplot;Frédéric Darboux;Hocine Bourennane;Sophie Leguédois

  • Evolution of soil surface roughness and flowpath connectivity in overland flow experiments

    F Darboux;F Darboux;Ph. Davy;C Gascuel-Odoux;C Huang

  • Soil erodibility for water erosion: A perspective and Chinese experiences

    Bin Wang;Fenli Zheng;Mathias J.M. Römkens;Frédéric Darboux

  • Revegetation as an efficient means of increasing soil aggregate stability on the Loess Plateau (China)

    Shao Shan An;Frédéric Darboux;Man Cheng

  • Operational performance of current synthetic aperture radar sensors in mapping soil surface characteristics in agricultural environments: application to hydrological and erosion modelling

    Nicolas Baghdadi;Olivier Cerdan;Mehrez Zribi;Véronique Auzet

  • Does soil surface roughness increase or decrease water and particle transfers

    Frédéric Darboux;Chi-hua Huang

  • An Instantaneous‐Profile Laser Scanner to Measure Soil Surface Microtopography

    Frédéric Darboux;Chi-hua Huang

  • Effects of fire‐induced water repellency on soil aggregate stability, splash erosion, and saturated hydraulic conductivity for different size fractions

    D. M. Fox;F. Darboux;P. Carrega

  • Soil aggregation and intra-aggregate carbon fractions in relation to vegetation succession on the Loess Plateau, China

    Man Cheng;Man Cheng;Yun Xiang;Zhijing Xue;Shaoshan An;Shaoshan An

  • A method for modeling the effects of climate and land use changes on erosion and sustainability of soil in a Mediterranean watershed (Languedoc, France)

    Jean-Baptiste Paroissien;Frédéric Darboux;Alain Couturier;Benoît Devillers

  • Development and evolution of rill networks under simulated rainfall

    J. A. Gómez;F. Darboux;M. A. Nearing

  • Soil aggregate stability under different rain conditions for three vegetation types on the Loess Plateau (China)

    Quanchao Zeng;Quanchao Zeng;Frédéric Darboux;Cheng Man;Zhaolong Zhu

  • Erosion budget and process selectivity of black carbon at meter scale

    Cornelia Rumpel;A. Ba;Frédéric Darboux;V. Chaplot

  • EFFECTS OF SURFACE WATER STORAGE BY SOIL ROUGHNESS ON OVERLAND-FLOW GENERATION

    F. Darboux;F. Darboux;C. Gascuel-Odoux;P. Davy

  • Runoff, Soil Erosion, and Erodibility of Conservation Reserve Program Land under Crop and Hay Production

    Fen-li Zheng;Stephen D. Merrill;Chi-hua Huang;Donald L. Tanaka

  • What do models tell us about water and sediment connectivity

    Jantiene E.M. Baartman;João Pedro Nunes;Rens Masselink;Frédéric Darboux

  • Effect of depression storage capacity on overland‐flow generation for rough horizontal surfaces: water transfer distance and scaling

    F. Darboux;F. Darboux;P. Davy;C. Gascuel-Odoux

  • Simulation of Rain-Water Overland-Flow

    Olivier Delestre;Stéphane Cordier;Francois James;Frédéric Darboux

  • Modeling rain-driven overland flow: Empirical versus analytical friction terms in the shallow water approximation

    Geoffroy Kirstetter;Jie Hu;Olivier Delestre;Frédéric Darboux

  • Aggregate stability of a crusted soil: differences between crust and sub-crust material, and consequences for interrill erodibility assessment. An example from the Loess Plateau of China

    B. Algayer;B. Wang;H. Bourennane;F. Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Cordier
Stéphane Cordier Grenoble Alpes University
Shaoshan An
Shaoshan An Northwest A&F University
Charles Bielders
Charles Bielders Université Catholique de Louvain
Olivier Cerdan
Olivier Cerdan Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
Vincent Chaplot
Vincent Chaplot University of KwaZulu-Natal
Mathieu Javaux
Mathieu Javaux Université Catholique de Louvain
Y. Le Bissonnais
Y. Le Bissonnais Montpellier SupAgro
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux University of Rennes
Fenli Zheng
Fenli Zheng Northwest A&F University
Christophe Josserand
Christophe Josserand École Polytechnique

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